Albert G. Jenkins

Albert Gallatin Jenkins (10 November 1830-21 May 1864) was a Brigadier-General of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. A descendant of United States Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin, Jenkins was a Harvard-educated lawyer before deciding to fight for states rights and being killed at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain in 1864.

Biography
Albert Gallatin Jenkins was born on 10 November 1830 in Cabell County, Virginia (now in West Virginia), the son of Captain William Jenkins, a plantation owner. Jenkins graduated from Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania and then from Harvard Law School in 1850, being admitted to the bar before inheriting his father's plantation in 1859. Jenkins became a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1856 and was elected to the 35th and 36th sessions of the US Congress for the Southern Democrats as a congressman. In 1861, with the start of the American Civil War, he decided not to seek re-election and raised a company of mounted partisan rangers for the Confederate States Army, siding with the South during the war. In the fall of 1862, his men harassed Union troops and supply lines, including the B&O Railroad as a Brigadier-General and a Confederate Congress member. In March 1863, his cavalry took part in a raid in western Virginia, and on 2 July 1863 he was wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg. During the 1864 campaign in western Virginia, he resisted George Crook's troops at the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain and was wounded; his arm was amputated by a Union surgeon, but he died of his wounds. His daughter Alberta Gallatin, born in 1861, would be a stage actress in the late 19th century.